I cam here to get away from all the corporate BS, but suddenly people want to welcome Facebook/Meta to the fediverse? I cannot fathom how people see their intentions as pure or innocent, especially since they aim to profit off of the open source software everyone has worked so hard on.
I just don’t see how the fediverse survives if it decides to let these massive companies make their instances. It feels like it’ll be a repeat of the rise of social media, where all the smaller forms got wiped out by large, consolidated social media platforms.
It survives through the way it works. If they suck enough, they’ll end up being cut off from the rest of it. At the very least, people can choose an instance not ran by them. Even start their own.
My concern is content originating from Threads is going to be tainted by their sorting algorithms.
Are sorting algorithms shared across instances? 🤔
It’s not direct no, the concern I have regarding Meta’s algorithm stems from their size. By being so large, what is popular on Meta’s side would spill over. And I feel the way Meta shapes conversations through their algorithms always ends up in the most dumb and harmful content.
I’m honestly just kinda hoping it won’t be me scrolling on Lemm.ee and all the sudden see the type of shit I can view on Facebook because one person went and visited a Thread made up of Instagram users who just got enrolled in “the new Twitter”.
Then don’t use the platform sorting content by those algorithms? But I see your point. A facebook-sized community would drown us out if they didn’t purposefully expose the rest of the fediverse to our communities and magazines. But, it is my hope that Meta has learned how to do their research, and knows what it is about the fediverse that attracts people, and would build as minimally invasive a filter as possible to allow smaller niche content to bubble up (and not force Lemmy’s hot feed to look exactly like threads.net). I would hope they plan to engraciate themselves with the established communities on Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin so that those very vocally anti-corporate groups (and they must know this) would at least tentatively allow content from their platform into the “wider” fediverse.
Thank you for taking the time to respond and see my point. At this point I want a ten foot pole between me and Meta.
But yes, it would be the ability for Meta to drown out and saturate content. It would start all nice and friendly between Meta and the rest. But Meta has to Meta and slowly start pumping things to drive eyes to a way that makes them money.
What I really don’t like is how it seems all of these recent corporate decisions are based on a companies viewing ANY eyeballs that are not looking at their content is a threat that has to be taken out. The sheer entitlement to a human being time. To go out of your way because you feel that they are costing you money because they don’t want to play with you.